The intensive care services of Hauts-de-France are saturated.

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Mickaël Bosredon / 20 Minutes

  • The number of Covid patients in intensive care is increasing in Hauts-de-France.

  • Intensive care reception capacities are approaching saturation point.

  • The ARS asks private and public hospitals to increase the deprogramming of non-urgent interventions.

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The number of hospitalized Covid patients continues to grow in Hauts-de-France and reception capacities are reaching saturation point, particularly in intensive care units.

The few transfers of patients are no longer sufficient and the Regional Health Agency (ARS) has therefore asked the establishments to increase the deprogramming of non-urgent interventions.

According to the regional health authority, the occupancy rate of intensive care beds in the region was 91% on Wednesday.

The latest figures from Public Health France were 497 people with severe forms of Covid-19 currently receiving intensive care in the five departments of Hauts-de-France.

The Nord and Pas-de-Calais particularly affected

Most of it is nevertheless concentrated in the North (227 patients) and in Pas-de-Calais (120 patients).

A figure all the more worrying that this does not decrease, 26 new arrivals having been taken care of in the North and 19 in the Pas-de-Calais on the only day of Wednesday.

Transfers to other hospitals in France and even, since Wednesday, to Belgium, are not enough.

The ARS has therefore requested an additional effort from establishments in the region in order to be able to reach a capacity of 850 resuscitation beds in the coming days.

For this, public and private hospitals are invited to increase "non-emergency activities deprogramming to free up the human resources and material resources necessary for the provision of additional beds", explains the ARS.

The “white plan” was also triggered for these purposes.

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